and living in new mexico. he writes for for "the new york times" and the interesting thing is he never heard how angry the president was so there were no repercussions to his career so that was his five minutes of fame. >> he is likely -- lucky because -- moving to alaska. [laughter] >> one of the things that i hate most about this duty is having to call a hault to the proceedings, but i have to. and and i hope we have given you enough to realize that those the book and the cds inside are goldmines. please enjoy them and thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> "500 days" and the author is kurt eichenwald. he joins us here at the national press club. mr. eichenwald what are the 500 days you referred to? >> well this is a book about the period of time between 9/11 and the beginning of the iraq war. the reason i am covering that is, this is the period when all the major decisions were made in terms of policy -- international policy around the world, about how the west was going to respond to al qaeda and th